From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kaz@helios.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku) Subject: Re: Nope! was Re: ADA SUCKS, C/C++/JAVA RULES!!!! Date: 1997/10/30 Message-ID: <63af0h$om6$1@helios.crest.nt.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 285998296 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <6355i2$pb5@epx.cis.umn.edu> <3457E8B3.9C650F03@shsu.edu> <3458072B.6A22E8FA@deltanet.com> Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy Date: 1997-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3458072B.6A22E8FA@deltanet.com>, Phlip C Plumlee wrote: >JT (from Fritz) wrote: > >> I code a bit in C and C++ and the more I have to debug other people's >> C/C++ >> the more I like Ada. > >You might consider your choice of other people... When you graduate from elementary school, you might realize that that choice isn't as easy as choosing schooyard friends. Making that choice might mean quitting your job which pays the bills. I have to side with JT: C and C++ are languages suited to the lone guru who perfects code in isolation. Many programmers who write in these languages are just code butchers who don't understand the languages. They assume that a long integer is four bytes long, that incrementing a maximum integer wraps back to the minimum, that main() can have any old return value, that pointers all have the same representation and hence void ** is a generic pointer to pointer, that string literals are modifiable, that arrays are really pointers, a byte is exactly eight bits, that plain chars are unsigned, that one can check feof(stream) without first attempting a read operation, and so on ad nauseum. -- "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." -- Blair P. Houghton